Hosiery



35 ing made with my improved yarn; and, of the stocking fabric will be readily recogesta im 25,1933 1,915,929

STATES PAT-ENT G FFICE BENJAMIN nAY'rocx, Jn... or EAsroN, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNon. 'rol cmrlAN xNrrriNe or EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, A oonronA'rroN-or rnNNsnvANIa f nosmn Application mea August 29.1930. serial Nu. 478,613.

This invention relates to hosiery, and has three threads 5, 6 and 7-I initially twist more especial reference to stockings made individually all in the same direction, '1, e., from silk, rayon and like yarns having ahigh toI the left between twenty and fifty turns gloss or lustre. 1 to the inch. The fourthor remaining 5 The object of my invention is to eliminate 8 I twist in the opposite direction or to the 55 the sheen in hosiery made from gloss yarns, right between tivev and fifty turns per inch. and at the same time to improve the appeariTo' frm the yarn Y, I subsequently-twist the ance and the wearing qualitiesof the stockfour threads 5-8 together in the same direcv tion as the thread 8, i. e. to the right between ings. 10 The'indicated desideratum I attain., by initwenty and fifty turns per-inch. As a con- 00 tially hard twisting, in onel direction, the crete example, a arn Y having all the atmajority of the component threads of which tributes hereinbe ore pointed out, may be the yarn is composed and the remainder 0f had by twisting the component threads 5, 6 the'component' threads initially in thenreand v7v individually thirty-six turns to the 5 verse direction, and subsequently hard twlstinch, the thread 8 twenty-live turns to the 55 ing the component threads togetherto formt inch, and combining the threads by twisting the yarn. By such hard twisting, the yarnthem together' thirty-two turns to the inch. is rendered more compact and uniform in Obviously, the directionsfof twists are im- 'diameteig as well as stronger with attendant material -provided that the described relation 2 suppression of the light reflective smoothnessas-between the twists of the threads 5-8 and 7.0 characteristic of silk or rayon yarns ordithe linal twist of the yarn Y is adhered to. narily employed in hosiery manufacture In other words, the threads 5, 6 and 7, may be A heretofore. The .fabric of a. stocking-made twisted to the right, and the strand 8 to the in accordance with my invention is 'stincleft, and the threads afterwards combined 25 tive inthat objectionable lustre andemphasis by twisting them to the left to form the 75l of the wales is entirely absent, and in that its yam Y. feel and texture is akin to that of 4delicate For thepnrpose of diversification in ny crepe woven on looms. new stocking, preferably knit the top or In the drawing, Fig. I isa diagrammatic welt portion W and a margin W immeview showing the manner in which the sepdiately adjacent thereto, of ordinarysilk orY arate component threads of the yarn are inirayon yarn, and the body B of the stocln'ng tially twisted, and how said threads are of hard twisted silk or rayon yarn Y pre finally twined together to form the yarn. pared as above explained. The distinction Fig. II illustrates a full fashioned stockbetween the contiguous portions W' and B Fig. III is a conventional representationv nized from the conventional representation of a fragment' of the fabric of thestocking of Fig. III. As shown, the fabric portion W' within the confines of the dottedirectangle appears coarse with its wales sharply emphaat III in Fig. II. sized and with the cheeks of its loops L' that,

4- 1u cu g out my iuveutiuu, I form the broad, und straight due nu the light msc .0

yarn Y m amultiplicity of individual (which is usually about two or three turns strands or threads of silk, rayon, or other per inch in the yarn) and therefore bly gloss material. In the illustrated instance reflective of light. On the other han in the yarn Y- composed of four component the portion B of the stocking made from the 5 strands desi ated, respectively, by the nuthinner yarn Y, the loops L` are more open merels 5, 6, and 8, 1n Fig. I. These sepaand their exposed cheeks round with the surrate strands 5, 6, 7 and 8 may, in turn, be faee of the loops broken up and the gloss composedof two or more fibres or filaments. correspondingly in consequence 5a, 6a, 7a and 8a, also as shown in Fig. I. of the hard twistof the separate threads v0 The mujurity of the threads-iu this cus@ the se constituting side ym Y und uw nml/*100' .in one direction and yarn twist .by which said threads are combined. 'llhe portion B of the fabric thus takes 'on a delicate, subdued and crepe-like appearance, and is characterized by an entirely different feel from that of the portion W.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. Asa new article of manufacture, a stocking made from gloss yarn consisting of a multiplicity of separate threads whereof the majority are initially twisted individually in. one direction, and the others initially twisted individually in the opposite direction, and all said threads subsequently twisted together to form the yarn.

As a new article of manufacture, a stocking made from gloss yarn consisting of a multiplicity of separate threads whereof the majority are initially twisted individually the minority initially twisted individually in the opposite direction, and all the threads subsequently twisted together in the same direction as the individual threads of the minority to form the yarn.

3. As anew article of manufacture, a stocking made from gloss yarn consisting of a multiplicity of separate threads whereof the majority are initially twisted individually to the left, and the minority initially twisted individually to the right, and all said threads subsequently twisted together to form the yarn. y

4f. As a new article of manufacture, a stocking made from gloss yarn consisting of four separate threads whereof three are initially twisted individually in one direction` and the fourth thread twisted in the opposite direction, and the four threads subsequently twisted together, to form the yarn.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a stocking made fromgloss yarn consisting of four separate threads whereof three are initially twisted individually in one direction, and

` the fourth thread twisted in the opposite direction, and all said threads su sequently twisted together in the same direction as the fourth thread aforesaid to form the yarn. v

/6. As a new article of manufacture, a stocking made from gloss yarn consisting of a multiplicity of four separate threads whereof three are initially twisted individually to the left between twenty and ifty turns per inch, and the fourth thread initially twisted between five and fifty turns per inch to the right, and all said threads subsequently twisted together between twenty-live and lifty turns per inch, to the right'to form the yarn.

7. A knitted fabric made of yarn composed of a number of twisted-together strands, the majority of which have been individually given a comparatively high twist in one direction, the others individually given a comparatively low twist in the opposite direction, and the twisting together of which has been at a higher twist but in the same direction as that of the minority of strands.

8. A knitting yarn composed of a number of twisted-together strands the majority of which have been individually given a high twist in one direction and the others individually given a comparatively low twist in the opposite direction, gether of which has been at. a higher twist but in the same direction as that of the'minority of strands. Y.

9. A knitting yarn composed of four strands three of which have been tightly twisted individually in one direction, the fourth strand lightly twisted in the opposite direction, and all of which are unitingly twisted together in the same direction as the fourth strand to a less number of turns per inch than the individual twists of said three strands.

In testimony whereof, l have hereunto signed my name at Easton, Pennsylvania, this 25th day of August, 1930. A

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